PHOTOGOON: BROOKS FRITZ

More negative scans means more photos. No, I’m not being negative. I mean negatives as in film negatives. Ever hear of them?  Yeah that’s what these following photos are and it’s what you used to load into your camera instead of that sweet memory card. After 12, 24 or 36 exposures you would have to change the roll of film for a new one. And a lot of the times Murphy’s law would happen. What’s Murphy’s Law? It’s when things will go wrong when you expect them to go wrong. What do I mean? I mean when you are sitting there stressing on changing the film as fast as you can for a freshy with out fucking it up and not dealing with a jock who doesn’t wait for “the shot” and just goes and does his trick. Sometimes there just isn’t a second try or a re shoot. Not saying these photos are like that, because if you know me I’m a complete photo goon. I will make you do that backside air over and over until I get what I want. I’ll bribe, I’ll beg, I’ll do what it takes to get “the shot.”Why? because I am the photo goon…

San Diego, California

Willis Kimmel, grab grinds on the hip. Speaking of hip. Damn dawg! Look at all the dizope graffitti.

Carlsbad, California

A Beer Beagle find. I enjoyed this one. Brendan Klein surprised the hell out of me when he grinded frontside over the love seat.

Carnation, Washingon

Captin Boohyah! Aka chairman of the board, aka the guy in the sky, aka ry guy, aka top gun, aka Ryan Williams.

Ryan didn’t need a YMCA, straps, or lame ass pads to learn proper  deep end backside airs. I got lucky one day and he told me what the secret is….

Dont jump off. It feels a lot cooler landing the “trick” then running it out. You like the light leak in this one? Yeah you cant do that shit in photoshop..

Port Angeles, Washinton

The Rad Ramp

Yeah it’ rad. But not that rad after drinkin two 30 packs of Pabst with only 3 other dudes and waking up in the dirt in the scorching sun only to try and not kill yourself on this thing.

Salton Sea, California

Wu Weller is pretty popular these days on the revolution. Tail slides  in the 100+ degree sun.

Orcas Island, Washington

MFBK layin it back south American style.

San Diego, California

Busted before the “tricks” went down. Guess they never went down then huh? So i mean would of went down. Kinda hard to match Hensley’s photo from here. Shit is priceless.

Oceanside, California

Poor potato head. I think I only shot a couple of makes of this guy. It’s not like Nollan cant skate. He just has very bad luck when the camera turns on him. Another bail photo….

No big deal but when your shooting film and the costs is coming out of your own pocket shit can get expensive. Easy to forget about that when you get caught up only shooting digital.

Carlsbad, California

Nick Palmquist kickflipped this thing. When we rolled up I was going to be stoked just to get a ollie.

Arizona

I Couldn’t help it. Had to add one my mandatory lame nature scenic shots. Have a good week. Enjoy your 4th of July. Go get your nipple pierced and a american flag tattoo. -Brooks

Photo goon: Brooks Fritz

Decided to get out of Oceanside for a few days to visit my friend Brendan but didn’t feel like driving. Especially didn’t feel like sitting in Friday afternoon LA traffic. So I took the train. If you don’t know the  Metrolink is the shit. Oceanside to Central Station in Los Angeles  cost $10.25. You cant beat that. $20.50 for a round trip. I would of spent more then double that if I drove the Exploader. (that’s my car, a 1994 Ford Explorer that is ready to blow up. It already blew up once and lately I’ve been noticing it’s ready for more. But, yeah the train is rad…

Safety First

San Clemente’s Nuclear Power Plant. We used to call them the Dolly Parton’s growing up.

Lower Trestles.

San Clemente Pier

Pretty much had the train to myself. Until….

This guy. Oh man, I cant stand this guy. No one else really on the train and then here comes this guy. He decided to sit next to me on the Phone for over an hour flapping aimlessly to get the time to go by. It drives me crazy. Your in public! It’s so annoying, you cant help but listen to his worthless conversation. Especially since I don’t own one of those Ipod things or a phone that plays everything known to man. I was stoked when his stop was up in Fullerton. Finally some peace and quite.

Angels Stadium

If I was a fan it would be for Padres not these guys…

Where’s Waldo? I mean Pedro.

Graffiti everywhere. If I was to do this I’d draw a 20 ft dick. Wait, that would be Dickville, aka Peecocko….

Made it to Central station. Brendan picked me up.  We drank a couple beers at his house got motafaded and decided to hit the local skateparks.

uh huh.

Damn. I was really looking forward to doing some sweet X up’s or tailwhips on my GT Mach One…

Park had a pretty fun amoeba. Too bad we showed up at the perfect time of the day when the sun blinds you and scares the shit out of you. Or maybe that’s just me.

Nothing amazing but at the same time really fun.

Brendan with a feeble grind on the slappy curb that isn’t too easy to slappy.

Before we left I had to get a photo of Jah faken ledges! Off to the next park. Locals hooked me up with a hot tamale off the roach coach.  Yummy!

The next park we hit wasn’t so good. Or maybe my buzz was wearing off.

Nah, it wasn’t the buzz wearing off. The place was just a buzz kill. Not really but just not that great. But all the same fun. I can have fun skating anything. But I can bitch and moan with the best of them about how it could be oh so better.

front side grind all the time

Charles Manson power slashin

Brendan’s neighborhood has some cool looking trees. Or maybe that’s just the mushrooms kicking in.

So after skating a couple parks we went back to Brendan’s house and ended up walking down the street to his local watering hole.

Brendan has a posse.

Our new best friend!

Pretty much ended the night kind of seeing like this. Made it back to Brendan’s just in time for the diverticulitis to kick in and that was that. Caught the train home in the morning and had mud butt the whole way home. People were laughing at me going into the restroom for the 5th time… Catch the train. Go ride some shitty parks and have a really fun time.  Have a good week. -Brooks

Tags: amtrak, Angels stadium, brendan has a posse, brendan klein, feebles, fs ollies, garvanza skate park, go skateboarding every day, graffiti, LA skateparks, lower trestles, metrolink, mud butt, south pasadena skatepark, tamlaes

This weekend spend your Father’s day with a bunch of border line retarded geniuses jocking out to raise money for the park.

Oh yeah and it’s that one day where it’s cool to skateboard.

PHOTOS: BROOKS FRITZ

No fairy tale story this week. Just some more random photos to complain about. Like I said last week I have way too many negatives to scan. And I have kinda been procrastinating after last week when I scanned in 9 rolls or so and forgot to save them because my friend Scotty came over and was distracting me about going to the store to get beers. Next thing I know I forget to save the scans to a folder. Ooops. He didn’t realize when I have the purple gloves on and blasting my Insane Corn Biscuit mix tape I mean business.

Oh how cute! look at the pretty flowers. Maybe I should go put on the Morrissey and cry for a while.

Ryan Harris back tailed over the door way at Killer Whale Island skate park right before the rain started so  could leave and go fishing with my Boohyah double bladed buzz. Whoo weee!

Brandon Frontside invert on the big wall at that one park where the locals are mean and scary.

The dogs couldn’t even stop him.

The road trip essential.

Vato loco David Rockito

What’s your name again? Backside smith grind.

crazy footed backside ollie over  the seat.

You never know what might happened down there under the bridge. Have a good week. A road trip is much needed. For everyone.

Tags: 120 film, ass, brandon, Davey Rockit, randoms, Ryan Harris, wsvt, wu weller

PHOTO GOON: BROOKS FRITZ

I literally have +40 rolls of medium format film that needs to be scanned. Let alone the 30+ rolls of 35mm. Pretty much I’m a dumb ass. I love shooting film, especially 120 but it gets exspensive and I don’t own a scanner. So I have just been building up this stock pile of film. Pretty stupid right? It is. But at the same time it’s not. So the other day I figured it out and borrowed my dad’s flatbed scanner that has a mount for scanning film. And now what? I’m finding photo’s I completely forgot about. And that for me was one of the main reason to start taking photos. Photos only get better with age. And sometimes what you think might be garbage actually becomes a priceless possession. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not putting down digital. I’m just saying there is something really special about being able to hold and feel film.. And if you don’t know what that’s  like because you only know compact flash cards then I recommend a disposable camera. Or a Holga. You cant imagine how much fun the basics are. Or maybe you do and all I am doing is flapping.

Ryan Harris, Stale fish over the love seat. Not off of it. Where? At Washington Street. San Diego, California. Oh my god! Am I blowing out the scene?

David Presley, Wall ride to yanker, Valley Center. San Diego, California.

Angle two. Im so rich I have cameras set up everywhere!

Stupid animals. Why cant they all go extinct all ready. I mean they are totally like taking up room and stuff.

G-Rat, wall ride to fakie, Valley Center. San Diego, California

Hey Joto! Your popsicle’s melting! Jamie Weller tail slides in a pool at the Salton Sea. Rumors are this thing will be buried at the end of the year. Go get it….

My dog Ollie. Way cooler then Meaty. All that dog has done is bring me a crowd of lame kids. Guess what? No she doesn’t skateboard.

You cant try to make this shit up. It just happens.

King of the Jungle

The New Dudes of Concussion Magazine.

Willis Kimmel, Crail slides in a blown out permission pool on Mt. Helix, San Diego California.

This is me and my daughter Brooklyn. Yup, I jumped on the bandwagon and made a wizard stick. It’s actually quite fun. Look how proud she is of her pile of a father and his drinking.

Have a good week. Make a wizard stick. Shoot film. Go skate. Go fish. Go to bed.

PHOTOS, WORDS: BROOKS FRITZ

Foreclosure is the legal and professional proceeding in which a mortgage  or other lien holder usually a lender, obtains a court ordered termination of a mortgages right of redemption. Usually a lender obtains a security interest from a borrower who mortgages or pledges an asset like a house to secure the loan. If the borrower defaults and the lender tries to repo the property, courts can grant the borrower the equitable right of redemption if the borrower repays the debt. While this equitable right exists, the lender cannot be sure that it can successfully repossess the property, thus the lender seeks to foreclose the equitable right of redemption. Other lien holders can also foreclose the owner’s right of redemption for other debts, such as for overdue taxes, unpaid contractors’ bills etc….

What the hell does this mean? MORE POOLS TO SKATE!!!

This one will be empty soon enough.

It’s a double shallow

Double trouble side pockets waiting for action.

Hispanics are the best neighbors you could ask for.

After checking out a few potential gems we headed over to watch the V Necks have band practice. Who knows what their name will be next week.

After that Cobra bombed the driveway. It’s faster then it looks…

Well what do we have here?

A kink sink. It’s funny how things work. Your either get a good deep end and a shitty shallow end or you get a good shallow end and a shitty deep end. Every once in a while you will get one that has both a good shallow and deep end. Pretty much what you are looking for. This one how ever was one of those shitty deep ends. But not too shitty.

Nice brick coping.

Art or function. You tell me.

I like Shallow ends. Maybe it’s because I am a pussy and really like the small stuff.

Cobra can skate them all.

Shallow end roll in. Lets see you try this. Nah seriously. I’m not trying to be cool guy. I’m just saying. Try this. It’s harder then it looks. But why do I need to tell you that. You skateboard, so you know….

Shallow end grind angle 1

Shallow end grind angle two. It’s crazy how gratifying a backside grind can be in a pool. Unlike your local skate park.

Have a good weekend. Go drive around. Find one. Drain it. Skate it…..

Photos/words by Brooks Fritz

I went to go shoot some skate photos the other week and ended up shooting this tree instead. I did shoot some skateboarding but it just didn’t work out. However this nature stuff always comes through.

His name is Ryan Harris. You may not know him now but you will someday. Unless he falls off like the other 98%  of kids that are coming up then get one photo in a magazine and think they made it. They party, get fat and end of just being on flow for life. Lots of talking about how they “use” to kill it is is common. But I’m pretty sure that wont happen to Ryan.

Once again mother nature coming through. Unlike those shit head, pants in a can wearing, cig smoking 17 yearolds that cant jump down 19 stairs for my camera more then a few times before they cant walk for the rest of the day. Thanks Nature.

Russel Grundy “performs” a low to high front side disaster as some boarder line retarded kids look on at the Oceanside skate park.

Oooh wow look at the pretty fish. Look at that pussy wearing thumb tape so his fingers don’t get tore up. Oh wait, that pussy is me. For the non fishing type, it’s the equivalence of wearing pads skating. what a pussy…..

I dont know about spottys but fresh water bass don’t have eyelids so when you take them out of the water they are super hyped on the sun. Picture it like turning the light on in the middle of the night to take a piss and your blinded for a few seconds until your eyes adjust to see the toilet but the blindness doesn’t go away.

I wonder if this pool is still there?

I’m so stoked. My daughter just told me she had to go poo. She actually held it and waited for me to help her up onto the toilet. So rad when she doesn’t crap her pants.

Russel Grundy again. Ollie from the hip into the bank. No, it’s not the exspensive camera equipment that makes this ollie look big. Russel actually ollies big.

I’m trying to think of  some witty caption and they all sound horrible. Like how’s this one for instance. ” I prefer my fish fresh. Ryan on the other hand prefers his fish stale. You can get them either way in Big Sky country” Told you it would be lame.

The hot pocket at St. Ignatious is a big hit. Pinnacle backside disaster by Peter Gunn.

To get back at me for some antics I did my friends decided to tape a dead mackerel inside my truck underneath the carpet kit. The one day I leave my shell unlocked they got me. It wouldn’t of been that bad if I didn’t have to work that day and if it wasn’t 95 degrees out. That fish reeked. Plus they all had me saying wholly mackerel that night they taped it in there. I guess you just had to be there. This boat reminded me of that day.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It’s a secret. It’s in San Diego off of Sea World Drive. Don’t tell anyone!

Have a good week. - Brooks

Thrasher does them on Fridays. Transworld has them on Mondays and here at Skateboard Revolution we have them on Sundays……  At least thats the idea this week.  Doubt I will be doing this next week. More like frontside grind Fridays or slappy curb Saturday will be next. But until then here’s some Sunday sequences. - Brooks

Nick Palmquist, varial heelflip, San Marcos California

Vista Alex, backside 180. Carlsbad, California

Drew Dezort, ollie to 5.0 yanker to fakie. Oceanside, California

David Presley, Feeble grind. San Diego, California

Shane Porter, drop in. Orange County, California

Photography/words by:

Brooks Fritz

I sure love this skateboarding stuff. It’s really a good time. Pretty much the best time. And with that said there’s nothing better then riding some round walls. I dont even need to do tricks or “maneuvers” to have a good time. I can just ride the skateboard these days and be content. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing but, it is what it is.  Anyways, here are some more front side grinds and front side airs for your viewing pleasure or viewing hatred. Oh yeah, and some bodacious tubular action. Remember, this skateboarding stuff is supposed to be fun. Not something to stress about. Why did you start in the first place?

Wake up Davey! Open your eyes. You are grinding a backyard pool for Christ’s sake….

No it’s not a fun box. It’s a death box. Hang up there and you might be taking a nap on the drain.

Sorry to break this news to you.  If you don’t ride a skateboard your not grinding.

Dude. Your pants aren’t even close to being tight enough. Where is all your flare? And why are you grabbing in between your legs?  Don’t you know you have to tuck your back knee in to get on Fuel TV?

Right in the neighborhood I grew up in…

Dave’s Ramp. I have fun here.

DJ Dickfoot. Aka DJ Mongo. Go to the Royal Dive on Monday nights to enter Richard lips World of Music….

Not really a round wall but close enough. Anytime you dont have to put your feet down is a good time in my book.

Oside surf team in between heats.

LOCALS ONLY!

Damn foam ball was trying to push me out the back…

Richard Lips doesn’t feel safe pulling in with out his helmet.

It goes on for quite a while……

Shaka Gnar! I put some illustration on this one to show you what’s going through Pat’s mind. This place is always glassy and about head high. The tide is always good too. Here’s Pat backdooring a deep section after pumping down the line for days!  GO GET SOME! - Brooks

PHOTOS BY: BROOKS FRITZ

Rick had a ramp. It used to be great. Then the neighbors bitched about it so much that he had to tear it down. The neighbors probably thought that was the end of that, but it wasn’t. Rick, being a smart guy went down to city hall and figured out what he had to do to have a ramp in his yard legally. (yeah, you can do that) So he got his permit and built a smaller ramp. That was that and the ramp was pretty fun. Just your standard 12 ft wide mini ramp. Then a few weeks ago I was informed by the infamous Beer Beagle that he was going to put corners on it. You wouldn’t believe how much of a difference a couple corners can make. Or maybe you can. I don’t know. I don’t know if you like to turn on your skateboard or not. Maybe your trucks are so tight you never even thought about turning. I’m just trying to make a point on how much better rounds walls are compared to just going back and forth. That actually gets me thinking. You ever watch those “soul bowl” competitions? I would always get so frustrated watching those things because they would have this huge bowl yet almost everyone would skate it back and fourth pretty much never even touching the corners. Talk about jocking out… Well enough of that. Here’s some photos from yesterdays afternoon session at Rick’s ramp with Kyle Galahger, David Presley and Bart Steed.

I bet the neighbors are hyped on Kyle’s hurricane.

The neighbors also love to blast the worst music when anyone tries to skate.

It’s such a laid back lifestyle down here in San Diego brah…

Bart lives up on the central coast where they are pretty laid back too.

Texas plant.

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Davey with a few different variations of the tailblock.  here’s a frontside two hander.

Ever hear a Japanese person say front side tail block? If not you are really missing out.

Or even backside tail block by a Japanese person is great. Like our friend Gyo. He would say hella gnarly frontside tail block and for some reason it would just make everyone’s day.

Bart, front side rock slide

Crail slide

Lein to tail

Davey’s  so good he does them with his eyes closed.

uhh. what are you doing? Holding down that sheet of masonite? Kyle was trying to learn inverts. But I prefer to call them hand plants.

We ended the session with the 18 pack being polished off right when Davey launched out to this smith on the the Chet Childress Nike money making device.

Have a good week. Enjoy tick tacking around.

Tags: backyard ramp skating, Bart Steed, David Presley, kyle gallahger, Ricks ramp